Songs of the Week: September 12 - 19, 2022
“Just Know It” by Dan Mangan
We’ve been getting singles and teases from Dan Mangan as of late, but we’ve finally got a new album announcement.
Dan’s 6th album Being Somewhere will be released on October 28th, and of it he says: “I wanted this album to feel like the inside crook of a familiar elbow on the nape of your neck, a comforting embrace”.
We also got another single off of the LP, “Just Know It”, a soft, piano-heavy track about “shooting yourself in the foot, told from the foot’s perspective”. It kind of reminds me of a track you would hear in a late 90’s early-2000’s drama like Dawson’s Creek - but in a very good way.
Christine
“Tooth and Nail” by Skye Wallace
Speaking of October 28… that’s also the day we’re getting the brand new album from Skye Wallace! The new album is Terribly Good and will be out on Six Shooter, and comes with another tease, the gritty “Tooth and Nail”.
Wallace says “This record is a banger of a journey through all the messy, sometimes ugly pieces of being alive and the beauty of growing while moving through it. I realized after it was completed that it was a love letter to myself, telling me to keep going.
“Tooth and Nail shouts defiance at all the expectations of failure I’ve met along the way, be it from outside sources or my own brain. The road here has been long, but creating music that makes me whole, and getting a chance to connect with people and feeling something altogether – That’s what it’s all about.”
Skye’s currently on tour in Europe, and will be returning home to Canada for a string of shows in November, including here in Vancouver at the Fox Cabaret on November 9th.
Kirk
“You’re Not the Worst” by Housewife
The string of October announcements continues with Housewife, and their new five song collection called You’ll Be Forgiven, out on the 14th.
If the songs we’ve heard so far are any indication, the album will be incredibly catchy, and the latest single is no different. The duo says the new song “You’re Not The Worst” is “about undervaluing yourself and allowing people who are overbearing and arrogant to affect you emotionally. Why am I spending time with someone who doesn't respect me or my time? Then finally working up the courage to cut them out of your life when you've had enough.”
The new song comes with a fun animated video, which you can check out below.
Kirk
“Echo Park” by Tim Baker
It is only one month until Tim Baker’s new solo album The Festival is released, and we’ve got a sweet little ode to the west coast in his new single “Echo Park”, a song about moving to LA and homesickness.
When the song started I immediately got a Wes Anderson vibe from it (maybe it’s just the slow motion vibe of and colouring of the lyric video) and could see it fitting into a teary-eyed montage.
Check it out below!
Christine
“sucker4u” by Little Destroyer
Vancouver alt-rock band Little Destroyer have officially announced their new album 1134, out October 18th, and the first singles off of it have been some of their best yet in my opinion.
And with this announcement came a new single and music video - and the second I saw the cover still for it, I knew it would be a fun one.
Fo “sucker4u” the band, dressed up as ““Ace of Spades” era Motorhead”, start out in a sunny field, but end up crashing a pool party, Jack Daniels in hand.
A song about love, and lead singer Allie Sheldan coming-to-terms with the reality that she was “now an absolute love-sick sucker”.
Christine
“Summer Slaughter” by Babe Corner
Last Friday, Vancouver’s Babe Corner released “Summer Slaughter”, the first single off their debut full length album, Crybaby.
The breezy tune is the perfect end-of-summer comedown, inspired by “the chicken factory down the street from [their] house and the stench it gives off when mixed with the summer heat.”
Check out the chilling video directed by Lester Lyons-Hookham below.
Kirk
